ABSTRACT
Suppose,asbefore,thatwehavenobservations(t1,yl),...,(tn,Yn)which followthemodel
(4.1)
Theei,i=1,...,n,arezeromean,uncorrelatedrandomvariableshaving commonvarianceu2andtheti,i=1,...,n,arenonstochasticdesignpoints assumedtosatisfy
Theassumptionofadistinctandscalarvalueddesignisforeaseofpresentationandtheresultswhichfollowtypicallycontinuetoholdevenwhen thisconditionisnotsatisfied(see,e.g.,Exercise1).
